---
id: CVE-2023-45815
title: ArchiveBox is an open source self-hosted web archiving system
summary: >-
  ArchiveBox is an open source self-hosted web archiving system. Any users who
  are using the `wget` extractor and view the content it outputs. The impact is
  potentially severe if you are logged in to the ArchiveBox admin site in the
  same b…
severity: medium
cvss: 6.4
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-79
  - CWE-79
vendor: archivebox
product: archivebox
affected:
  - archivebox <= 0.6.2
published: '2023-10-19'
updated: '2026-07-07'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-45815'
references:
  - url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery'
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox#caveats'
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/commit/a6548df8d0aae1d3d326deb1191b128232708166
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/239'
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/pull/1773'
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/security/advisories/GHSA-cr45-98w9-gwqx
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#save_wget'
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Publishing-Your-Archive#2-export-and-host-it-as-static-html
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Publishing-Your-Archive#security-concerns
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Security-Overview'
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/archivebox/PYSEC-2023-229.yaml
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/239'
    label: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/security/advisories/GHSA-cr45-98w9-gwqx
    label: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.0068
epssPercentile: 0.50988
ingestedAt: '2026-07-07T14:53:19.308Z'
---

## Overview

ArchiveBox is an open source self-hosted web archiving system. Any users who are using the `wget` extractor and view the content it outputs. The impact is potentially severe if you are logged in to the ArchiveBox admin site in the same browser session and view an archived malicious page designed to target your ArchiveBox instance. Malicious Javascript could potentially act using your logged-in admin credentials and add/remove/modify snapshots, add/remove/modify ArchiveBox users, and generally do anything an admin user could do. The impact is less severe for non-logged-in users, as malicious Javascript cannot *modify* any archives, but it can still *read* all the other archived content by fetching the snapshot index and iterating through it. Because all of ArchiveBox's archived content is served from the same host and port as the admin panel, when archived pages are viewed the JS executes in the same context as all the other archived pages (and the admin panel), defeating most of the browser's usual CORS/CSRF security protections and leading to this issue. Version 0.9.0 contains a patch. As a mitigation for this issue would be to disable the wget extractor by setting `archivebox config --set SAVE_WGET=False`, ensure you are always logged out, or serve only a [static HTML version](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Publishing-Your-Archive#2-export-and-host-it-as-static-html) of your archive.

## Affected

- `archivebox <= 0.6.2`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.